On Saturday last the giant Directory issue of POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY arrived at this address and I placed it on the back seat of my locked car with a number of other magazines. Shortly afterwards the car was stolen and it was recovered some hours later by the police, but a few blocks away.

Owen S. English, Texarkana Gazette staff photographer, won the sweepstakes prize in the Texas Associated Press photo contest with a shot of Marines departing for service. A total of 506 pictures were entered in the biggest AP contest in the country.

Madison Community Center Photographic Club has a group of prints for excnange. For additional details write to salon chairman Lowell G. Hansen, Room 300, State Office Building, Madison 2, Wis. Howard and Bullough S & R (Photographic Section) in England is desirous of exchanging club salons.

Ansco Color "Dupe" Film. Ansco has just announced a new color transparency duplicating film known as “Type 638.” The material, which comes in the 8 x 10 and 11 x 14 sheet-film sizes is a reversal material on a heavy clear base which may be printed either by contact or projection.

PHOTOGRAPHY as a hobby has some distinct advantages in that it is possible to derive enjoyment from all levels of competence in it. This is true for the one who makes occasional shots for personal or family record purposes as well as for the advanced practitioner of any of the more highly developed techniques.

LAST CALL to photographers everywhere who have delayed in sending in their color and black-and-white pictures for the big 1951 POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY Picture Contest! Packages must be postmarked not later than midnight, July 14. Bags of mail have been arriving every day for the past few weeks, and the contest room is stacked with prints of all sizes and boxes of color transparencies.

Outdoor pictures of pretty girls can be dull, says Peter Gowland. Add props for zest and impact and to help your models pose naturally

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HERMAN QUICK

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BECOME a beachcomber this summer—with your camera, that is. Down by the surf you’ll find everything a photographer could want: pretty girls, bright sun, sparkling water, and colorful costumes. Good pictures and good fun are yours for the asking.

When you take aim and fire, use a camera instead of a gun. It’s an outdoor adventure that’s exciting and a sport that’s humane.

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DON BLEITZ

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LET ME introduce you to one of the most fascinating hobbies you are ever likely to find—the photographing of birds. And, too, you will find that it becomes more engrossing as you progress with it. It does take a certain knowledge of your camera, an easy facility with its workings, a fair amount of patience, and even a bit of perseverance . . . but the results are so rewarding that you’ll feel that it was time well spent.

Amateur cameramen are always slipping into one rut or another. For instance, many of them seem to think that only one or two times in the day are good for shooting. This is a costly mistake on their part. The fine outdoor photographs appearing in this feature offer proof that any time of day is picture-taking time.

Two photographers who went aloft with their cameras spotted these exciting spectacles of smoke and flame

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WHERE there’s smoke, there’s fire—and usually a thrilling picture! When such dramatic scenes are shot from the air, the results are even more sensational then when photographed from the ground—as shown in these bird’s-eye views of an erupting volcano and a burning lumber yard.

. . so says photographer Morris Gordon who tells you how versatility with cameras and ideas pays off

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WHAT DO you specialize in, Mr. Gordon?” That question used to embarrass me— especially when it was asked by a fellow photographer who photographs nothing but cats, or who never uses anything larger than a Leica, or who works only with flashbulbs.

Photography brings companionship and new thrills if you can view its magic through youthful eyes

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RICHARD BEATTIE

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YOU CAN enjoy the fun of photography and the companionship of your children at the same time by making your hobby a family affair. Picture taking is the world’s best hobby. It will be even more rewarding if your enthusiasm is shared in a stimulating and harmonious partnership.

He shows how masterful use of simple principles plus taste and talent create striking figure compositions

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KENNETH WRIGHT

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WHEN famed Martin Munkacsi published his first book of nudes this Spring he did so after many years of extraordinary photographic achievement, proving that successful photography of the nude usually requires full maturity in addition to the usual quota of talent, imagination and technical mastery.

But don’t use it like a landlubber at sea ! Carleton Mitchell, yachtsman-photographer, lets you in on some nautical lens lore

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JOHN R. WHITING

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OPPORTUNITIES to take pictures of sailboats heeling in the wind do not come every day. If you get a chance to take your camera on the water, you want to make every exposure count. You want to capture all the sparkle and action, all the memorable adventures, the little moments with friends, and all the sea-going atmosphere you can.

It’s the instant when the subject before your camera shows itself to very best advantage . . . the exact moment you should trip the shutter

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WHAT makes the difference between a good picture and no picture at all? It can be the simple act of releasing the shutter. In all the steps of converting an unexposed film into a finished print, nothing is more important than this basic operation.

All photographs submitted for this department should be accompanied by technical data. The sender’s name and address must appear on the back of each print. We will return them if sufficient postage is enclosed.

Dawn Departure, by W. R. B. Watson, was taken on the docks of New Zealand’s Wellington Harbor. The camera used was a 35-mm Leica IIIa equipped with a 35-mm Elmar ƒ/3.5 lens. Exposure, through a medium-yellow filter, was 1/100 second at ƒ/3.5 on Kodak Panatomic-X film.

The Board of Standards and Appeals has handed down its decision approving the American Society of Magazine Photographers’ Certificate of Change of Purpose. In simple language, we are now a membership corporation licensed by the State of New York to act as a labor union.

To lighten a portion of a negative in contact printing, cut a piece of tissue paper the size of the area to be lightened and place it on the opal glass (see illustration) congruent to the particular negative area. The opal glass should not be closer than one quarter of an inch or else the graduation from the normal to the lighter area will be too noticeable.

A date or other information may be desired in one corner of a print. This information can be stamped on the paper easily with a rubber stamp. Ink the stamp on a stamp pad, and then press it firmly on the paper, before printing. After printing, when the paper is in the developer, rub the stamp-pad ink off, and the legend will appear in white.

The winners in the 1951 National High School Photographic Awards, sponsored by the National Scholastic Press Association and Eastman Kodak Co., have been announced. A total of $3,500 was awarded, and Grand Prize, $600 in cash, was won by Daniel Gregory, of Sandston, Va.

DISCONNECTED movie scenes lack story-telling power. For instance, the amateur who takes a shot of horses in a meadow, follows this with a slow-motion study of a diver, and then cuts in with a beautiful snow-pattern landscape, ends up with nothing more than a succession of pot-shots which, regardless of their individual interest, lack the necessary quality of continuity.

LET ME INTRODUCE you to—or help you renew your acquaintance with—a bit of movie technique that will make your scene-taking easier and will add a bit of smoothness and polish to the finished film. This technique, in movie parlance, is known as the DOLLY SHOT.

“The Undefeated” tells the story of a young glider pilot who lost both his legs and the power of speech during the war, yet was determined to become an active and useful member of his community again. Commentary is by Leo Genn, who plays a government welfare officer telling one of his case histories.

This is the first volume of a series that will present a comprehensive reference work on developments in the fundamental aspects of photography and cinematography. It will comprise a record of the significant advances achieved by scientific research and technological development all over the world towards making photography a more versatile and efficient tool.

A FOLDING VIEWER, the Stereo Color Scoper, is being imported and marketed in the United States by Studiophot, 2063 E. 4th St., Cleveland 15, Ohio. Of all-metal construction. the Scoper accepts standard 1⅝x4 metal, glass, and cardboard stereo mounts.

4th Hartford International Salon of Photography and Color Slide Exhibit*, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. On exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum. Aug. 1 to 31. First Exhibition of Scenery Photographs, New York State Museum, Albany, New York.

LIFE MAGAZINE announces a $15,000 picture contest for young photographers, with a deadline for entries on Sept. 15. There will be two prize divisions—one for individual pictures and another for picture stories or sequences. The contest, designed to discover new talent, is open to all residents of the United States whose 31st birthday does not fall before January 1, 1952.